On Writing

nickzed:

“I go to the library, and I open my laptop, and I sit there, regardless of whether or not I feel like it. I gave a reading at a high school the other day, and one of the students asked, ‘what do you do when you don’t feel inspired?’, and I said ‘I’ve never in my life felt inspired, it’s not a question of inspiration.’ It’s a question of this mundane, or this seemingly mundane act of will. I just go, and I’ve committed myself to this project of trying to be honest, and it’s not like a glorious revelation, it’s an incredibly difficult, frustrating, self-deprecating act.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer (interviewed by Charlie Rose)

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    i think he should give a reading at my high school…:)

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    He is not my favorite but this is just so, so true.

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    think this has been reblogged to death, but...some way, wanted

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    That’s exactly how I’ve felt the past two years. I’m not sure if I like that feeling.

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